On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 09:44:16AM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: > On 2017-03-13 09:06, Dave Turner wrote: > >On 13/03/17 13:35, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 08:25:25AM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > >> > >>On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:10:00PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> > >>I have found two browser-related devuan packages that have surf in > >>their names. > >> > >>surf > >>netsurf > >> > >>Is either of them relted to the surf you are documenting? > >> > >>Hi Hendrik, > >> > >>you should use the package "surf". The default version in jessie is > >>0.6, but I would warmly suggest you to get the 0.7, e.g. from > >>jessie-backports. > > > >Just noticed > > surf --version > >doesn't work. > > > >But aptitude indeed does tell me I'm using 0.6. > > > >Looking at backports. Now have surf 0.7. > > > >With the backports lines in /etc/apt/sources.list, will everything > >automatically > >get upgraded to the backports version if I do > > aptitude update > > aptitude upgrade > >? I don't see anything in /etc/apt to stop this. I'd like to be able > >to have some > >control over which packages I get from backports. > > > >Or am I better off from a security perspective to always get backports > >updates for > >everything? > > > >-- hendrik > > > >>HND > >> > >>KatolaZ > >> > >>-- > >>[ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] > >>[ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] > >>[ @) http://kalos.mine.nu [1] --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] > >>[ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia [2] -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] > >>[ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] > > > > Hendrik, > > When you use backports all packages in backports are de-activated. > > You have to explicitly install the package you want. > > > >sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package" > > > > So don't be afraid to add > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian [4] jessie-backports main > > into your sources.list > > > > and have a look at > > https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ [5] > > to set your mind at rest. > > > > DaveT > > > > Perhaps not the best advice . . . Has this issue been fixed yet? If not > you'll have to do the pinning manually. > > https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=479 > > golinux
I just pinned it manually. So it looks as if the issue has not been fixed yet. Or, at least, not for a system that was installed from alpha-2 and continually upgraded since. It is a configuration file, and they sometimes don't upgrade without manual intervention. -- hendrik > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
